Impractical Random Number Generators | Useless Game Dev

Опубликовано: 01 Октябрь 2026
на канале: Useless Game Dev
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Computers are bad random number generation. I want to help. Let's build a few way to extract entropy from the environment and start generating some numbers. Will it be a Tamagotchi colony? A Twitter spam bot? A dice shuffling robot? Or all of the above?

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More reading/watching on this subject:
Source code for Doom's RNG https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/b...
xkcd's Tamagotchi Hive https://xkcd.com/1546/
More xkcd on RNG https://xkcd.com/221/
Hardware RNG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardwar...

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:52 Tamagotchi
05:19 Twitter spam bot
06:13 Dice Shuffling machine thing
09:05 Outro

Music:
"Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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A002 by Monroeville Music Center

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